The Sun. — London, England, 1808-04-25 00:00:00

c • MAILS. AA ;+z vip—zCattezbuegji, s New-York, 3 autiii2.3 Water. turd, Dug-1 Com:du:ll4l4 z Warirtimd. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS, 11A Y AT TWZI.VE O'CLOCK. ennsole, - - 66*i S T N. SOLLA Gln. DICIRZ NALSVSI AUDIAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, MONDAY, A?KIL 2.5, 1808, Accounts vitre posted up at I.4,OYD's Coffee-house . , on Saturday last, stating, that the Satyr, Which has arrived at Portsmouth, had brought inteiligence that the. ftcicliefort Squadron had reached the Havannab -early in last at Aulk,.; and we. understand thatsimijar imelligence from Admiral DACHES,had been received at the Mrrilralty. But if the eve its now carrying on in Spain did not render it extremely probable that the French had- sent a Squadron to take possession of or'ioplunder , the Spanish 'Colonies in the li:rot we should doubt these accounts. The re port, it seems, ,of -the arrivalsof ihd Preach. stt Cue Havanotili was ndt brought direa from that - port to • Kik, , mtrm, but from St. Jago de Cuba to 'the latter iit a :eilAr dated the sta - ‘ina C.lat a Courier had arrived 'there from the Harannalt givin g this intelligence. The distance from the flavannalr to St. Jago de Cuba is near four lumircd ,miles, through a country, we be lie.ve, nearly impassable. We should conceive 'therefore that this intelligence could not have beQn less than twelve days on the passage, which would. throw back - the arrival at the Havannah to the 14th of February—Now as part of the . Bocelifort Squadron was seen - off Madeira on the ,24th of January, we doubt exceedingly if it could have' reached the Ilwannah by the. time mentioned. , It may he observed, also, that the Vessel which brought this letter to Kingston Knew nothing of the intelligence it contained. :,, WE have this morning received American Paperi t r; ts..e ioth nit. (win which we have made copious bat we have not room to enter into any detailed observations upon 'their contents. It is Lowever, that the 'Embargo has already plotitzced very great ilistress in America, and of course a IL- rt io nabi t e iliare of discontent. - 'fix! arrivi.l of Mr. ROAE bas , tonsidecalily 'late:rest these Papeti would othrr- WI Ik)SS~SS. .31in Certhirion is iirrivttd at Pc , rtstr4oath from C atid thi account. Tat the Roche:on Stoadroit had atl wally reached Toulon, and the f siutira is said to Live received the same intettigenCe 0 0111 the eGnzong, which she met in her passage. • , Two Mails arrived from Gottenburgh this morn ini, by wl4ich we have rece►ved the following in - lel- i - Gorrntißunott, Ana, 'lL—YesterdayAdmiral Sit, 8,.1-1o(4), in Ow Ceram:a, with two .other Ves fiela gaited for I lie Suund. several more itegithe . nts are marching to the frontiers of Norway, ancrixe expt.‘et woon to hear of an attack having been made in that quarter. We have no news from Denmark.; is deedrall communications with it is for the present aniperided. The Danish Prisonerstaken o!!t of the 'Prince Cltri.&un Frederia , Man of War, which was de s t ro y_ el by his Britannic! Majcity'A Ships Staidly and Na tau, are confiptid 'in the Store .Houses of the Swedi,ti East India Courpany ; the Officers are their parole, GOTTEiffluftpx„.AlTTL e l 1c : !--4 Tea . eller Itasfriv7 thiSmOtning . from Lubeck, which he left the Ist April, Tfic► yossel.he came in cleared out for. Eisineur, , hut made the port of Ybtadt, from whence . he.aaine hither. On the 20th March be . at Nienbarg, wl . 4'!re 'the principal put of did were , assenthled . for the embarkation of the French Troops for Zealand, and 'a griat rate4)64l. diem weN there •et that time embarked but a contrary winci,pf4venteci them from sailing for lour days, at the end of: which • tuner _the English Frigate, the Qiirbee, made her appearance, and put an end to their. project. This traveller says, that the French had 30,00ti„tnen in Holstein, and a considerable numherwere in Jutland. . From the Frontiers 61 Norway, We loin, that the Norwetinns. hit 6 wqocis, and }aid the branches of the trees acros t i the .roads, so a.s to render them impassible, artillery.; but We do nut learn that any other operations of copsvgnence have yet taken pine. General Aumristairr lick joined t4d Ai ray there. His' Britannic Majesty's Ships State/y, and Nass'au, with,several smaller Vessels, remain here. The Swedish Gini.boats are. all going "T e. 4 the Sound. Adcf*tits, from le,nland :Are very gloomy; the Avi-py is still rctreating ; Sweabur&h is, / ,14Q„vtiver, capable of tnaking a gone; resistance, from Va very otrxing sittmtion, an t.l having, it is said, a COrrison . of 7000 n)en.. WE mentioned the return of Mr. nOSS from Arne rica on Saturday last, in the Statira Frigate. lie a. was only • tw'stv 4 ity -two days on his passage. 'The 'Packet which had his 'Dispatches on board did not arrive till Saturday. It is With much pleasure we confirm the reports, that though this Gentleman's mission was not quite so successful as might be ex peEted, his accounts shew that America is altege_ tiler much more favourably disposed towards this. Country than she was a few months Ago.. The Pre sident has not-annulled his unfriendly Proclamation, nor has the Embargo been withal-awn ; but Mr. Ross was assured that the continuance of the latter did not arise from, any, hostile feeling to wards this Country. Mr. ResE Wait 'fully autho rized to make every proper reparation in the. bu siness of the • Chesapeake; but as the President refused to revoke the PrOclatnation, and as, there are other topics which required discussion, the Negotia don was suspended, upon. the favourable assurances we have alluded to. The fact is, that the President is in a delicate acid perplexing situation. iie is afraid of being involved in a War with France, and be is under equal; if not indeed greater appregensioni, of incurring .t I.:: hostility of this Country. By a tclmi natien of all disputes with Great Britain, he thinks I he would inevitably bring on the vengeancsof France, ;And lie cannot submit entirely to Fritte', 'without exposing ,himself to the resentment of a great majority of his countrymen, as well 'as' to a War with the British 'Empire. In this state of things he ha 4 deemed it' the hest policy to withdraw from both France and Great Britain under' the protection of his Enibargo. But as the offensive Decree of France necessarily produced our Orders in Council, the AmeitiCan Government has thought proper to apply to France, and means to remain in the same position till the result of its new instru6tiOns to General ARMSTRONG, the American Minister at Paris, shall be known. It is evident, , however, that this state of .afEtirs cannot continue long, whatever may be the determination of Franco ; for as the latter was hi fa6t the' ay..' gresssor, by its unprecedented a&s 'of tyranny against the comMerce of Neutral States, and as the Embargo is every day felt more grievOus and•oppressiVe in America, ,the general sentimeno , of the people in that cotnity will most probably" induce the President to adopt a more decisive eon du&, and that. will as probably be in favour of the. country who only aaod upon, principles of fair and just retaliation,' ,111 r, Rosa parted in a very friendly manner with the President on the 28th ult..and as Messri. (44sero and Movizon were:Wl:Ay 'to be' ele6ted to' the Presidency and Vice-Presidency oti the approaching eccasion, there is every reason to hope. that the present amicable disposition or the people will be strengthened by the measures' of th e shbsequent Gos ern men t. The Prince dclolphui Packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Thursday last, was 3: days from Ha. lifat. There seemed no Ilkelihood'of the embargo' being taken off, thong!) the distress it has productd is so great, that no less than Sevritg-tive houses . rtre said to have stopped payment in New York only, ' The wretcht:cinesi consequently spread among - all the commercial orders, and particularly among the lower ranks, may be easily conceiVed. One, good efFea has been produced in the Licifkli service from this stagnation—it has a . greut nutubcr - of our seamen; who hav been discharged from the Arne- . rico) I an effcer still More important th at itme . of - the Northern States have . discussed tI. question, whether,, in tbe'event.of a wur.with England, 113ey are bound to adhere. to flit- ILiinn, or may ,declare in favour of England ! Will Mr, JfiFFRION, then, with 1.11 partiality for France, dare to declare in her fayonr, <it the risk of chisolving the . UniOn over which he so t. , .e.hly presides ? • „ • - bet- . . yrom tne moment.; tliat ..tsuoNAPRTIS, began, to collect an army in the . Spanish territories, under the avowed pretext of conquering Portugal, it required no gre cle4apeof politir-.41 fc).resight to artncipAtu. gt. nevoltition in . Spain, and the .final expulsion of the - 1301511 . 11(w dynasty. "file intelligence which reached town yesterday •cou fi CMS' all the opinions Which arc have expressed • upon this subje#. • Tlie King teir. Spal4,,is, dethroned ;* awl, to make his . degradation the more complete, he, has • been .coMpelled” to 'de clare that his abdication was quite voluntary,. and that.' his ' . lll state of health required a 'change of cli mate. Buo;girmin, however, did not think it ptu dent at cinceldexpel theToußsoNs from the Spanish Throne; and the Prince of AsTuntris is the nominal successor of his father, under the title of titHDINA:4D the 7th. Although the French Army inSpain is very numerous, and is in possesion of almost all the important places in that Kingdom, yet such hai been the determined spirit manifested in several instances by thi people, that BIJONAPARTE would not venture at once to 4 ivo. the Crown of Spain to one of his own relations. The Prince of ASTURIAS was therefore suffered to ascend the Thron e ; but he' will not be permitted to fill it long. With respeet to the particu-. tars which preceded this evert, we are soiLev hat in doubt, as the accounts are rather confused. It is stated that BUM APARTE desired an interview with the KING of SPAIN at Bayonne, which was declined; the Corsican, however, succeeded in inducing the PRI Nci of ASTURIAS to become the instrument of the deposition of his. father. It is also added, that the PRINCE of PEACE, having discovered the secret arrangements that were carrying on between Buo- NAPA RTE and the PRINCE of ASTURIAS, divulged th e whole affair to the . KING, and advised him to retire. to South America : the King, however, had not firmness of mind enough to adopt that mea sure, and was at length compelled,•as we have ai ready stated, to abdicate the Throne. As soon as thenew King was seated on the Throne, he issued a Prochiniation, in which he assured his subjeas that the Army of his Ally, the Emperor of Franco, had entered his Dominions upon principles the most friendly to his interests, and merely to guard the Ports of Spaip against the designs of the English. The property of the Patwcs of PEACE, to the amount of three millions sterling, it is said (but this must be a gross exaggeration), was confiscated, but he him self escaped • There are other accounts, however, upon which we arc more inclined:to relY, stating, that this Rem utiou was brought, : about chiefly by the Spanish Nobility, "counttnanced by the general spirit of the People, without, any secret or open co-operation of the French, and we have seen private Letters of • the same import. Certain it is, that Arragon, Va lencia, and Catalonia, had offered 'to raise And main tain 150,000 men, to support the new King againit the 'designs of the #rench. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au ousTA, MARI-, and SOPHIA, accompanied by the Counters of RADNOR, and Lady WYNNE BELLASYSE., rode to St. George's Chapel. Windsor, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. HALLAM, from the 15th chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, nd 16th verse. " The blessing of the Gospel of Chi st." The new conctruaed Gun-boats, built for service' in the Baltic, carry each one gnn of large calibre. We lately stated that the British Government in' India were sedulously occupied in guarding against the threatened invasion of the French and Russians —these arrangements t we are happy in being able to add, are of the most' comprehmiive nature, and are calculated to produce the most important effeds. Amongst other measures, the B.Nr-bay Government has entered into'a treaty with the Soubandar of La hore; by which the latter engages, iu case an enemy should' approach by that route, to lay the hithetto accessible parts of his country under water. _ _ _ Iro:uediately previous to the sailing of the lately arrived Fleet, accounts had reached India from Nt t iw South Wales, stating that some of the con viets had effeZted their escape from Botany Bay, and taken refuge in the woods. Shortly after wisich, it was ascertained that some skirmishes had taken place amongst the natives, supposed to have been excited by the cotivi6k," all of whom (the convias), it is added,, perished in one of these attions. It' is strsted that the Constitution; which was at tacked by Rear-Admiral MrCuLLocit, in the Yotsng lioscian - was designedly blown up by her own Captain. Aware that he had no chance of making his escape, or of resisting with eilea, he mustered all hands, called upon such as wished to save their Ives to jutlip overboard, and invited those who were re- Solved to perish to conic aft to him. He then stated his determination to blow up the Vesiel,, which was immediately carried into' effect The 'most ex traordinary -honours were paid to his memory by PRTION, and . a Vessel was named after him. ',A third Marty, it. is said, has laen lately formed inSt.-Domingo. It consists- of Brigands that occupy the mountains and defiles, and are alike hostile 40 CHR;STOPILE anti PIITION. Their-leader is remark able tin skill, vigilance, and intrepidity. They con trive to attkk, at the same'rnotnent, points-remote :troM:each Other, and after plundering the country, and harassing the trnops, they take shelter in the fastru•ssesafid mOrnes. PaTtON had, in the end of February, sent a strong detachment to attack their head-'quart era in the -Mountains. 'The report,, that the PIIII4cE of the PEACR has mgcle. his escape from . Spain, is repeated in the last .accounts received from out Squadron off Lisbon.' It .is a rerriarkble proof of the solidity'of British ere diOliat ibis Minister, who has been so long the in strument•of France, has for many years remitted a great part . of his gains to England, and has now an, immense sum in our tends, standing in the name: of foreign merchan!9. _ On the 20th inst. the Rev. RANDOLPH RICHARD -Kw 5.; . -441.:14Afk ) A. M.-Ream of Watt r Newton, Huntingdonshire, and Chaplain to the Right Hon: the Earl Of LEVEN eirld MELVILLE, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER to the valuable Reetory of West Wickham, in the County of Kent, on the Presentation 'of Lady FARNABY. The Iphigenia, a new Frigate, of 36 guns, will be launched front Chatham Dock 'yard to-morrow. Two Gthi-boats of a new construtlion have been built .and coppered, and sent to that yard. They are to be taken 'out in the Viaary ; they mount ; one large ,gun. Lord COLLINGWOOD was at Palermo on the sth ult. and had the honour of dining with their Sicilian N.lajesties. The successes of the enemy in Calabria had not created the least 'alarm in Sicily—the Court and the people were confident in their own resources, and in the powerful co-operation of Britain. Capt. GooiJALi has paid to the contribution at :Lloyd's, for the relief of British prisoners in France, on account of Gen. CHRISTOPUE, 1 001. and 211. tor himself. The KING . has granted a pension of iOOOI. a year to the Marchioness of TOWNSHEND, out of the privy purse.. %/mgAvAaTa has presented to Prince KURAKIN a sate box with hig portroit set in diamond s , _ valued ots at 40,0001. for the share ' the Prin took 111, the Treaty of T i lsit. . NAVAL NEWS. TRURO, APRIL '23.—ibe Francis Freeling Pack( t, Capt. BELL, reached Barbadoes on the 6th February, and Jamialca on the'.l4th from whence",she ariived yesterday at Falmouth, after a passage of seven weeks. Admiral Sir A. Cocnnitt4E's Squadron, consisting 01 the belleisle, of 74 guns, Capt. MALTDB, RC/Milieb 74, Capt. PicEmenz, Yurk, 74, Capt. BAP.TON, Captain, 74, , Capt. WOLLEY, Defence,. 74, CY. EILItiS, Intrepid, 64, Capt. WORSLEY ) and a Fri• gate, were off Martinique on the 20th February, all ,Among the late captures in the West radio, us two 'Spanish Schooners by the ilfuros• Frigate, which had also detained an American, with 1000 barrels of flour. The Meleager Frigate, Captain Iliou6Errox; has taken the Danish Sloop Bella, a small French Privateer, and the Spanish Schooner Antelope, of 6 guns, and 63 men, laden with ovine, brandy, silks, and dry goods, besides 47,000 dollars, from Cadiz to. Vera Cruz. The Garland Frigate has captured a Spanish Schooner from Cuba to Porto Rico, with sundries, and re-captured the Bd. tish Schooner Hope. The Topuze' Frigate has car ried into Port Royal the American Ship ,Eliza, with wine, salr, &c. from Cadiz. The Favourite Sloop of War bad detained the American Ship Rittenhouse, which having been previously taken by a French Pri4 vateer, had been condemned, and afterwards per mitted to sail for America. • 1 The Dcedalas Frigate had captured a Swedish BT of 18 guns and s 57 men, from Port-au:-Prince ttok America, after having fired too shot at' her. II A Convoy was appointed to sail from Jamaica for England on the 20th of April. Several of the scat tered Ships of the Convoy which left Portsmouth on the 18th December, had arrived at Jamaica.-- The Spanish 74, San Lorenzo, was lying at the Ha• vannah, with topmasts struck. Admiral Dr.ulll., with two Line-of-battle Ships, several Frigates ofiti Indiamen, passed the Cape on the igth Decernb6l for India. rLYIi ............ Q -A, ,01/11i, APRIL !3.—Arrived the Arneri Ship Genera' Clarkson, CONCKLIN, from Batavia, laden with a very valuable cargo, consisting of nankeens, &c. burthen abbut 300 tons, detained. seven weeks since by the Hyacinth Sloop-of War, on her passage to the Brazils with Dispatches. Arrived. the Hindostan, of 64'guns, with a Fleet of Viduallera under convoy from Admiral Corm ri a Peet. On board the Hindostan and her convoy are icon th several Portuguese otßcers, merchants, and theit families, who have been tbrt unate e nough t° efrcc their escape horn Lisbon. Arrived the Pornone Frigate from a cruize in the Bay, where, it is said, she has been oti' shore in Pura suing some of the Enemy's Vesspls ; and the P allas Frigate, from a cruize to westward. Arrived the Prosperity, WILLiAms., from I) wg . heda, with oats. The Tenzerairr, of 98 guns, is ordered tote docl.:- , ed, having sprung a leak. About Soo•Portuguese subjeas have arrived here in the.couree of yesterday and this day, in the Vic tuallers from off the Tagus; they are to be.put lot the present on board one of the ,Ships of War in Hamoaze, fitted for that purpose, until an oppor• tunity offers for sending them to the Brazils. Arrived this-evening a large Portuguese Ship from the Brazils, and a Viaualier frorn the heel otf t Tagus, with about 300 Portuguese Emigrants, who have escaped from Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24 .—The outrtard-bnun d West IndiJmen, which sailed from this port ni) the cothinstant, under convoy of the Melpomene Fri' late, parted company with the Fleet off Portland a few hours after their sailing from hence, and Y estt ' f ' day put back to St. Helen's. Sailed yesterday, the Gun -brig, With Corwoy fur the Downs; among which are-- The Fame, Alien; Adeona, Scott ; kohinson .I.J.y Cathcart,. ,Elliagoverth,-; rifiefittiobrie Trader, --""'" Zephyr, Brown ; Aberdeen, Cralgie ; Darlington, RObirINP ; Rodney, Bowes ; Hope, Hick; Britiih Volunteer, I" . gate ; British Tar, ; Goodwood. WilMams ; 113rrrolt Sidman ; young Willl3lll, -; 'Majors, ; an' l Lams. ; Transports. Also sailed the Sprightly Cutter, on a cruize. The Bektte Sloop of War gives convoy instruc tions to Vessels bciund to the West Indies and t he 4venger . Sloop of War to the Trade bound to Hall . fax, Nova Scotia, and. Newfoundland. No arrivals or sailings this Clay. DEAL, APRIL 24.—Arrived, and sailed for 1114 Riv,er, ilt.L.ecca Transport, Capt. CA.Lotiis,./roi'l Portsrnout This morning Rear Admiral CAuirar.r.r. struck ills Flag on board the Princess of Orange, and hoisted it on board the Trusty ; the former has since gado' with the Defender and Fitm Gun•brigs, with a Fleet for Portsmouth. BRIXHAbi QUAY, APRILiIItu Torb3Y4 the Channel Fleet from off Brest.